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hydra   (TTS Sound)

The noun hydra has 4 senses

• Hydra -- ((Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; "Hydra was slain by Hercules")


• Hydra, Snake -- (a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer)


• hydra -- (trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality; "we may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution")


• hydra -- (small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp)